The meaning of the library
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: edited by Alice Crawford
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780691166391
Subjects: Libraries; Libraries and society; History
Description: "Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--present a cultural history of the library"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Alice Crawford -- Part 1.; title: The Library through Time. -- 1.; title: Adventures in ancient Greek and Roman libraries  -- Edith Hall ; -- 2.; title: The image of the medieval library  -- Richard Gameson ; -- 3.; title: The Renaissance library and the challenge of print  -- Andrew Pettegree ; -- 4.; title: From printing shop to bookshelves : how books began the journey to Enlightenment libraries  -- Robert Darnton ; -- 5.; title: "The advantages of literature" : the subscription library in Georgian Britain  -- David Allan ; -- 6.; title: Literature and the library in the nineteenth century  -- John Sutherland -- Part 2.; title: The Library in Imagination. -- 7.; title: The library in fiction  -- Marina Warner ; -- 8.; title: The library in poetry  -- Robert Crawford ; -- 9.; title: The library in film : order and mystery  -- Laura Marcus -- Part 3.; title: The Library Now and in the Future. -- 10.; title: "Casting and gathering" : libraries, archives, and the modern writer  -- Stephen Enniss ; -- 11.; title: Meanings of the library today  -- John P. Wilkin ; -- 12.; title: The modern library and global democracy -- James H. Billington.